Investigating the views of primary school teachers regarding the role of curriculum requirements in designing philosophy education for children: a case study of primary school teachers in Malayer city.

Authors
Sahar Esmaeili 1
Hasan Qarabaghi 1
Kazem Delrouz 2
1 Malayer University
2 Yasuj University
Abstract
The purpose of the research was to investigate the views of elementary school teachers regarding the role of curriculum requirements in the design of teaching philosophy to children. In order to achieve this goal, descriptive-correlation method was used. The statistical population of the research was elementary school teachers of Malayer city. In order to collect information, a 42-question, 9-dimension salemi questionnaire (2016) was used on a five-point Likert scale. The reliability of this questionnaire was calculated using Cronbach's alpha method of 0.960. In order to analyze the data, Pearson correlation analysis, path analysis and structural equation modeling were used. The research findings showed; There is a positive and significant relationship between the components of the curriculum design requirements for teaching philosophy to children from the teachers' point of view. The results of the path analysis showed that the obtained t values indicate the significance of the path coefficient of all the components in relation to the requirements of curriculum design for teaching philosophy to children.
Keywords
Philosophy
teaching philosophy
teaching philosophy to children
Curriculum
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